We are migrating our network from our independent AD to a subdomain of our parent companies AD. All of our emails are staying the same, just he domain is changing. What do I need to be aware of in Spiceworks to move it over? Will ticket history be maintained? I want to say it will, because it is tied to the email address and not the username.

Should be set then - just be sure DNS stays clean after the migration. Spiceworks needs to have accurate new DNS records to properly resolve names, and subsequently update your devices with new information.

Ultimately the serial numbers on the devices won't change, so as long as Spiceworks can still "find" them (via name resolution) things shouldn't get confused.

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I'm not sure about the device records themselves. I assume domain membership will be affected, so you may end up with a double-set of devices once they have all been rescanned. Has anyone else done a migration like this?

As far as tickets, do your users use the portal? Do they login via email address or AD authentication?

As long as the email addresses don't change you shouldn't have any problems there, as you guessed.

The users use both the portal and email. We have AD authentication set up. As far as email addresses, they are not changing (although we might change the format (from <first initial><last name> to <first name>.<last name>) which I suppose would mess with the history) but that's an issue I'll work with if it comes.

Should be set then - just be sure DNS stays clean after the migration. Spiceworks needs to have accurate new DNS records to properly resolve names, and subsequently update your devices with new information.

Ultimately the serial numbers on the devices won't change, so as long as Spiceworks can still "find" them (via name resolution) things shouldn't get confused.